Region: Australia

As an Australian mining tycoon’s second investment treaty arbitration against his home country gets underway, he has threatened the government with a third claim worth nearly US$45 billion.

06 November 2023

Leading Geneva-based arbitrator Charles Poncet has seen off another attempt to disqualify him from a tribunal in light of a quashed criminal conviction in the Italian courts – as he makes a surprise return to Swiss politics.

06 November 2023

The Federal Court of Australia has ruled that India cannot rely on state immunity as a defence to enforcement of a US$111 million investment treaty award arising from a cancelled satellite deal.

24 October 2023

A Perth-based mining company says it has retained a “leading arbitration law firm” after Burkina Faso withdrew an exploration permit for a gold deposit.

18 October 2023

Featured in The Guide to Construction Arbitration - Fifth Edition

12 October 2023

The under-45s group at the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA 45) has elected its first co-chairs and has appointed overseas lawyers on its steering committee for the first time.

23 August 2023

Australian disputes funder Omni Bridgeway has asked a US court to enforce an ICC award worth nearly US$15 million against Albania and its national oil company.

26 July 2023

Daniel Allman, who previously represented Naftogaz in its treaty claim against Russia, has been promoted to the partnership at Norton Rose Fulbright in Sydney.

23 July 2023

An ICSID tribunal has ordered Tanzania to pay nearly US$110 million to an Australian nickel miner over legislation that revoked its project licence.

18 July 2023

UPDATED. Details have emerged of a second investor-state arbitration that mining magnate Clive Palmer is pursuing against Australia, reportedly worth US$26.8 billion and relating to coal permits.

12 July 2023